Current opportunities and challenges: Genome-wide association studies on pigmentation and skin cancer

Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 612-617

  Meng, Shasha ^a,b   Zhang, Mingfeng ^b   Liang, Liming ^a   Han, Jiali ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Genome wide association study; Pathway analysis; Pigmentation; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; HUMAN; MELANOMA; META ANALYSIS; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN CANCER; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STUDY DESIGN;

GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 84865543320     PISSN: 17551471     EISSN: 1755148X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148X.2012.01023.x     Document Type: Review

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